Come to the second Nova Labs Juneteenth Barbeque and bring your friends and family for a fun-filled community day. Share reds foods, dress snappy, and learn about African American traditions, inventors, and makers. (We'll have tents for shade, but this is outdoors in the fresh air with lots of room.) Activities for the whole family: Water play activities for the kids Bring your maker stuff and enjoy after-dinner making/crafting Movies or sports on the big screen indoors There

Ed. note: Darsh Nand is a member at Nova Labs and got married earlier this year. As part of a unique wedding favor, Darsh and his wife Katrina created laser engraved/cut tokens that were given to guests. Read Darsh's note about it below. My wife and I recently got married and instead of handing out favors to our guests, we asked guests to put a laser cut token (made at Nova Labs!) into a box. The box had an option to pick between two charities/organizations we feel dearly abo

Summer Camps are Open for Registration This summer, take time to MAKE! Spark and unlock your child’s creativity with a camp at Nova Labs MakerSchool. Your YOUNG MAKERS (K-3rd grade) can become a LEGO master builder, a wizard, or an artist. These camps provide rich, creative environments for our youngest makers to soak up the maker ethos. Your KID MAKER (4th - 6th grade) will get to build space stations, windmills, castles, catapults, lashed together bamboo structures, and mor

This year Makerschool was grateful to receive grant support from the VELA Education Fund, which focuses on non-traditional and new approaches to education. VELA recently featured Makerschool in a “Selfie” video story about the work we are doing, and had a great writeup on the VELA blog: This fall, a team of instructors hosted a weekend workshop for teen girls to learn welding, woodshop, and metalshop skills. During the worst of the pandemic, Nova Labs even hosted a “makerscho

We’ve been busy and productive these last few weeks. We’re finishing phase 1 construction, separating our space from our tenant, SunDog. And in huge news, 1916 in Reston is now empty! All tools, materials, and furniture have moved to Nova Labs’ new home at 3850 Jermantown Road, Fairfax VA. Thank you to each and every one of our incredible, hard-working volunteers. The build-out, packing, and moving has been amazingly quick and even smoother than we had hoped. NL3 Current Stat